In December 2019 the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) organised an international seminar on Strengthening Women’s Participation in Peace Processes: What Roles and Responsibilities for States? Building on Italy’s goal to strengthen the role of women in peaceprocesses and in all decision-making processes as formalised in its Third National Action Plan on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000); its spearheading of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN); as well as its activefacilitation of women’s participation in peace and political processes across the Mediterranean region, the high-level seminar examined the role of Member States in advancing the full and effective participation of women in mediation and peace processes.